Call all the distributors large and small and beg and plead for one that's from last season or before last. Just maybe they have one they can give you a deal on. I would not hesitate any longer on this as spring is here now and it will be very difficult to find any winter deals.

I stepped up and bought an electric one last season. I priced around and compared quality and am very pleased with mine. They are a pleasure to deal with, customer service is top notch.

It is a little pricey, but Idon't want to buy one and then just outgrow it in a year.I figured by time next year I will have about 14 to 18 hives...This year I am shooting for 140# out of each of six hives, and possible eight to ten nucs

I bought this one last year for another beek and he never picked it up. It is still in the original box. I have never opened it. You can have it at last year's price of 885.00 if you want it.I can either ship it freight collect or get a freight cost and you can prepay it.

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me . . . Anything can happen, child. Anything can be"

I bought this one last year for another beek and he never picked it up. It is still in the original box. I have never opened it. You can have it at last year's price of 885.00 if you want it.I can either ship it freight collect or get a freight cost and you can prepay it.

I bought a Mann Lake 18/9 motorized extractor last year and I was not impressed with it at all, it just felt cheap and I had nothing but problems with it. One of the biggest of them being that the even with the speed controller, I could not get it to spin slow enough. It was either off, or running at an rpm that was too fast. I use deep frames with wax and wire foundation, so I wanted it to spin as slow as possible at the start due to the weight of the frames with honey in it, but even on its slowest setting, I blew frames out. So IMHO I would not recommend this extractor.

Look at the Maxant. USA made at an old, family owned business that still believes in quality.

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"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me . . . Anything can happen, child. Anything can be"